Canyon Park

 My three little girls!!  They are so cute!
 

 Lili and sophie just sat in the water here, that is why lili is sucking in because it was cold.

 Miss model Bella!!

 Bella was swimming and of course Lili had to copy her.  luckily its not that deep.

 Bella was impressed with herself for sitting in the creek.  It is run off so its pretty cold!
  

One of the fun free water parks in Cedar!!  I love this park, its full of beautiful mature trees so there is shade everywhere.  That is not common here and then it has this cute creek that flows through it.  I get scared to let my kids swim here especially now that I'm such a slow mover but I figured if I didn't go with a friend I would concentrate more and make sure they were all safe.  When I have a friend there, we talk and its easy to not see something. 
So we took pizza and let the girls play in the park.  I was very proud of my girls.  they are super kind to one another.  Bella was very concerned for the girls through the swift parts of the creek and held their hands one by one.  Then Sophie went off and played in the sand volleyball pit.  Both Lili and Bella came up to me separately and asked where sophie was.  When I told them they both said, Ahh, that's sad she is by herself, I'll go play with her.  I was very proud of them for their kindness and thoughtfulness!!  these girls sure bring a lot of joy to my life.

front porch

 Here is the craft rachel and I made yesterday once we helped the girls make theirs. 

I wanted something a little festive for the fourth outside.  I saw this here http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/06/american-flag-spindle-post.html  and of course copied it just a little smaller version but I think its cute.  I made the little table and painted the planters all black.  I guess I need to move the welcome sign but I think its very inviting as you walk up.  As you can see I am trying to keep busy while adam is gone.  

Now what???

kid's fourth craft

 
Yesterday Rachel and Tera came over with their kids and we did a fun kid's craft.  They are super cute and the girls are so proud of them.  If you are interested here is where I stole the idea.  This is a fun website http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/06/tin-can-flag-windsock-for-kiddies.html   I also stole another idea from her but I'll post that tomorrow, its not quite finished. 

I feel bad because I thought I wouldn't want several of these hanging around so I had the girls make one together and I really need to not make them share so often especially because they are so cute in our trees I would have loved to have another one. 

37 weeks!!

Okay so a few have asked for a prego picture and I always tell them I never take pictures when i'm pregnant and I really don't.  I only have one of each of my kids.  I really wasn't going to take one but I got thinking about when I would see pictures and my parents would say, "there's mom pregnant with hayley" and I always thought that was cool.  so for our little guy and those who want to see the chubby me.  Here ya go.  Only three more weeks to go! 

Of course three more weeks also means that I get to see Adam again too.  Adam is working in Texas.  He has been gone for a week already and he gets to come back 2 days before my due date.   So three more weeks will be a great celebration!! 

Blue Wizards!!

 Bella played t-ball this summer.  It was every tuesday and thursday for about 6 weeks.  I have to say it was the cutest thing ever.  These kids are so funny to watch.  They are always fighting over the ball and their attention span is not that long but they sure made progress by the end of the season.  They were all hitting and throwing really well.  If you were taking score, bella's team won every game.  She was one of three girls on her team.

 Here is bella up to bat.  When we first started teaching her she was an amazing hitter and then when she got to the games they would always put the tee so low and so it messed her up a bit but she adjusted and would always hit out towards right field. 
 

 Every kid fought over first because everyone threw it to first, it was where all the action was.  So bella usually got to play it every game or every other game but here she is playing catcher.  Catcher was scary because kids would not pay attention and start swinging or they would throw the bat.  Luckily this was the only time bella played catcher.  

 Here is a great action shot of Bella, she is the one throwing the ball.  

 Here is the end where she learned to cheer for the other team and she absolutely loved her team name.. the Blue Wizards!  She also loved that there were treats at the end of the game.  It was a lot of fun for her and she can't wait to play again. 

Fishing Night!

The three little fisherwomen!  Adam has been wanting to take the girls fishing for forever so for his birthday yesterday we took them up to the kids pond.  We didn't catch a thing!!  Everyone around us, however, was catching a million.  So after a few hours we left empty handed and very sad. 

But the next day we decided to try again and go in the evening.  It paid off, each one of these girls caught a fish.  they were small and cute.  It was so fun to see the girls as they reeled them in.  They were so excited and just giggling like crazy.  They were so excited to hold them.   Adam was afraid they would be to girly to touch their fish but I knew better, I knew I raised some tough girls.  They even loved watching Dad gut the and clean the fish.

Here are all their prideful fishing pictures.  First Sophie caught hers, then Bella and then Lili.